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...biggest story of the NBA off-season is Shaquille O'Neal joining LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers. How does the move affect Cleveland's chances of winning the championship? I think they obviously improved. People have different things to say about Shaq, but he is undoubtedly the most dominant force in the NBA. When we're playing, we notice that Shaq is on the court. Regardless of how effective he's been, he affects you mentally. He changes your thought process about how you're going to go in there and do different things...
...still doing this study?" he says. "If you are trying to make the argument that [different health outcomes] must be genetic by exhausting other possibilities and saying what is left over must be genes, well, that's never going to work. There are a million things that affect people's lives. If you think it's genes, then measure genes...
...have the luxury of philosophizing about food. With the exhaustion of the soil, the impact of global warming and the inevitably rising price of oil - which will affect everything from fertilizer to supermarket electricity bills - our industrial style of food production will end sooner or later. As the developing world grows richer, hundreds of millions of people will want to shift to the same calorie-heavy, protein-rich diet that has made Americans so unhealthy - demand for meat and poultry worldwide is set to rise 25% by 2015 - but the earth can no longer deliver. Unless Americans radically rethink...
...recession going to affect this upcoming class of students' applications...
...cross the border, if not having a direct hand in the violence - "The dark powers," in the words of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's political adviser Sadiq al-Rukabi. "They don't want a strong government in Iraq. And they try in one way or another to affect the progress of the Iraqi people...